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Offline shaner

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i'd like too l add a spacer
« on: December 12, 2006, 01:39:28 PM »
 hey guy i got a stock thats cut off, and i need to add 3/4  - 1 in to it, would like something i suppose black  so it matche the pad? any help or ideas
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2006, 01:41:51 PM »
I used a slip on recoil pad over the recoil pad on a TDC youth stock, it worked fine. ;)

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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2006, 02:25:36 PM »
Shaner

If its a pallet wood stock you may be able to make a spacer and do a kinda grind to fit , then glue and screw . then stain to match .

If its a lam. then Tims idea would look better .

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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2006, 05:31:16 PM »
never goin to match it , its a old vanished on, stripped then varnished, came on a old shotgun  i picked up awhile back ,
but its almost a youth  stock, aint crazy bout slip on ,,,but may gothat way ,i need a spacer like they use to make a shotgun  longer  they come like 1/8th in and maybe up to 1/4 in, maybe ill glue like 5 of them togather???? or iam thinkin a thick  piece of  like plexoglass??? and put a clear lookin  spacer??
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2006, 05:52:46 AM »
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2006, 09:00:00 AM »
you could take a piece of walnut, beech, birch, poplar, anything that might make a gunstock, cut it to the thickness you need and trace your buttstock on it, saw out that shape to about 1/8 oversize and then predrill it with a 1/8" drill, place against your existing buttstock and complete the holes being careful to leave about 1/8" all around. Take into account that your stock will continue to get larger (taper) as it goes towards your buttplate/recoil pad. Install one screw and carefully drill a 1/4" hole in the other predrilled hole through your spacer and about 1" into the buttstock. Place a 1/4" hardwood dowel in that hole and then remove the first screw and drill the other hole out to 1/4" the same way. After being sure your existing buttstock and homemade spacer are competely flat and level so there is a good tight match where they join cover the dowels and each piece of wood that will be mated together with a good waterproof exterior glue and join together with the hardwood dowels firmly pounded into the holes and the 2 pieces of wood clamped firmly together. Let dry and refinish just as you would any other piece of wood or gunstock. The different woods will take stain differently but when completed all you should see is a fine line where the stain is different. The stock will as strong or stonger at the joint than a single piece of wood.
I always advocate that BEFORE shortening a stock for anyone that you predrill two 1/4" holes in the back of the stock where you have removed the buttplate as deep as the piece you are going to remove plus 1", save the piece you remove and you can later replace the piece you have removed with all the grain and edges perfectly matching by simply glueing it back in place with 1/4" hardwood dowels. Also use as thin a kerf blade as you can that will cut perfectly straight and flat with little splintering. Before cutting wrap the stock with painters or masking tape to reduce splintering, and let the blade do the work, go slow and don't force it through the wood... This is much easier than trying to match it exactly years later. Good luck and have fun with it, that's what these guns are for....<><..... :)   
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2006, 10:41:22 AM »
wo thanks i ll proboly try that i always save the chuck i cut off this  was done when i got it , oh ill finger something out here
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2006, 10:43:01 AM »
by golly  fuzzy ur alright i didnt know they made them out to 1/2 in ,, cool deal , couple of them an id be in  business  hhhaaa,
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2006, 04:58:21 PM »
they also have the but spacers on that coate machine and tool inc , the ones that make that choate varmit stock or sale any ways
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Re: i'd like too l add a spacer
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2006, 06:54:17 AM »
thank  notto sure they would work wel on wood
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